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Week 9 Wikipedia and Yahoo Answers are similar in many ways but are also very different. Wikipedia is usually where most people go when they are first looking for information on a topic. This is because it provides users with all the relevant factual information required to gain a basic understand of the concept. Most users never use this as a reliable source as information can be added and edited by anyone and everyone. Similarly, Yahoo Answers allow users to ask questions online to other users. These users that answer the questions could be credible (if they are a doctor, or lawyer, etc.) but they could also be just another user who is speaking only from their personal experience. Since users update both these sites, the information on there is also updated on a very frequent basis and there are many links embedded (sometimes they do not work) in the work posted on both these sites. Usually if a concept or process is being described, there are appropriate pictures that definitely aid in the understanding of the concept. This is very beneficial as it definitely provides the user with a good basic foundation of the topic they are searching. On the other hand, there are numerous grammatical and spelling errors, as well as run-on sentences. Overall, the site is well maintained but the quality of the information on these sites is doubtful at best. Thus the functionality of both these information sources is not reliable.

Even though Wikipedia provides sources from where they gained their information from, these sources are not reliable. Some users on Yahoo Answers do include links from where they got their information from, but some of them are outdated and a few do not even open. They do not have any contact information for users that are having issues with the content to contact. Thus, they are very transparent in their approach to their users.

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